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Xeni Jardin Takes the Heat on Boing Boing Conference Call (Adrants)

Thu, 03 Jul 2008 14:41:53 GMT

Yesterday Boing Boing held a conference call with Xeni Jardin, David Pescovitz, Joel Johnson, John Battelle of Federated Media, and The LA Times.

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Google Rebrands Performics Affiliate Network, Retires AdSense Referrals (MarketingVOX)

Tue, 01 Jul 2008 11:15:42 GMT

Google quietly rebranded its Performics Affiliate Network, reports John Battelle's Searchblog. The service, which Google inherited with the DoubleClick buy, is now called the Google Affiliate...

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Explore : AdSense, DoubleClick, Google, Search Engines, Technology

Quality Sound Bites (Clickety Clack: Online Ad Blog)

Tue, 01 Jul 2008 05:45:45 GMT

But it's NEVER about distribution on the Web. It's ALWAYS about quality. The next time Google tries this, if they are not working with a hit, it will fail. John Battelle riffing on Google's deal to distribute Seth Green's content...

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Surviving survival (Random Mumblings)

Tue, 24 Jun 2008 03:03:17 GMT

Yahoo is very close to being a distressed property, it feels like. Or is it already'-- John Battelle...

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UCSF Memory & Aging Center channel on YouTube & ‘Fight for Mike’ (Pimm - Partial immortalization)

Thu, 19 Jun 2008 20:43:16 GMT

Even tech people in Silicon Valley need to join their powerful forces and sources when it is about aging related neurodegenerative diseases and help research and the clinic. UCSF Memory and Aging Center channel on YouTube Om Malik: A Personal Note: Pause & Read via John Battelle

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Big ideas, smaller audiences, and too many (or the wrong) metrics (Cnet)

Tue, 17 Jun 2008 05:13:00 GMT

Insights from the Conversational Marketing Summit (CM Summit) in New York John Battelle's Conversational Marketing Summit, which debuted last fall with much acclaim in a more intimate setting in San Francisco , faced a challenging task with its second edition last week in New York . For starters, the speaker line-up ...

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Wenda! Wenda! Wenda! (AdPulp)

Thu, 12 Jun 2008 19:05:08 GMT

I'd never heard about Wenda Harris Millard before. My bad. Thanks to Brian Morrissey at Adweek (and Catharine P. Taylor's pointer) I now know better. In a talk with Federated Media Publishing founder John Battelle at the Conversational Marketing Conference in New York yesterday, she said, "emotional creativity that has been key to building brands" is being overshadowed by "the cool efficiency...

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Explore : Advertising and Marketing, Blogs, Cities and Towns, New York, New York City

My del.icio.us bookmarks for June 7th through June 11th (the billblog)

Wed, 11 Jun 2008 13:00:12 GMT

Here’s what I tagged on del.icio.us between June 7th and June 11th: Google: Making Nick Carr Stupid, But It's Made This Guy Smarter - John Battelle's Searchblog - John Battelle disagrees over the impact of Google… Is Google Making Us Stupid? - Useful reflection from Nick Carr U2 manager: Ad-supported music is beneath musicians - Paul McGuiness shows [...]

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Former PC World editor to launch Technologizer site (Talking Biz News)

Tue, 10 Jun 2008 18:39:33 GMT

Harry McCracken, the fofmer editor of PC World, announced Tuesday that he is starting a new Web site called Technologizer in conjunction with Federated Media, which is run by former Wired magazine founder John Battelle. The site will launch this summer. Technologizer will feature original news, reviews, analysis and community features for the general technology consumer [...]

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Federated Media, McCracken to launch 'Technologizer' (Cnet)

Tue, 10 Jun 2008 13:36:51 GMT

The former PC World editor will launch the tech news site later this summer in conjunction with John Battelle's advertising start-up.

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McCracken gets cranking on Federated Media's Technologizer (Cnet)

Tue, 10 Jun 2008 13:36:00 GMT

Former PC World magazine editor Harry McCracken plans to launch the tech news site later this summer in conjunction with John Battelle's advertising start-up.

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Explore : Internet, Media, Technology

Word of the Day: Ouroborosphere (Churbuck.com)

Mon, 02 Jun 2008 13:33:51 GMT

Twitter - John Battelle’s Searchblog “I am very, very tired of the ouroborosphere’s take on Twitter. It’s time for the service to either fish or get off the pot, so to speak. And with $15mm in the door, it’s obvious which way it has to go.” Echo chamber, reflecting pool — whatever you want to call the [...]

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Verticalization is the Only Strategy Left (pc4media)

Tue, 27 May 2008 08:51:00 GMT

John Battelle calls it well : MSN's new deal to pay the users of its search engine is less about paying it's users. It's more about having tighter relationships with vertical sellers. By making the ad network cost per action (cpa), as opposed to Google's cost per click (CPC), they're creating a system that every retailer should participate in. There's no risk and little complexity. You...

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This is the week to redesign your blog it seems (The Blog Herald)

Sat, 24 May 2008 17:49:40 GMT

Apparantly, this is the week for blog redesigns - with both Joi Ito [1] and John Battelle [2] of Federated Media either deploying new looks, new blog frameworks, or posting new screenshots of what their blogs could look like. I know Thord has been working on the redesign of The Blog Herald as well. Anyone else dropping a new look & feel on their blog this week? [1] http://joi.ito.com/weblog/2008/05/20/my-new-look-and.html...

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So, Is Google Is Bigger Than TV? (Modern Marketing)

Mon, 19 May 2008 14:17:00 GMT

"Let's not kid ourselves, Google is the most impressive and important development in the history of marketing since the invention of television. And I'm not overstating it," said John Battelle last week. Now he may not be completely impartial but...

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You're Right, Joe (John Battelle's Searchblog)

Mon, 19 May 2008 03:56:42 GMT

Joe Duck, in a post about blog ranking systems: Ironically I think success has really diminished some formerly great blogs. John Battelle is one of the most thoughtful writers on the web but now he’s way too busy with Federated Media to keep Searchblog as lively as it once...

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Bill Gross, Advertising, And Accountability (client k)

Sat, 10 May 2008 10:00:44 GMT

Bill Gross, Founder of Idealab, tells John Battelle in The Search “The more I [thought about it], the more I realized that the true value of the Internet was in its accountability. Performance guarantees had to be the model for paying fo media.” That accountability has spoiled me. Having paid for the first wave of marketing, all internet based for the eBook launch, I’m now looking [...]...

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Demand elasticity? (26econ.com)

Thu, 08 May 2008 13:53:37 GMT

From Paul Kedrosky: Monthly vehicle-miles on U.S. highways from 1983 to today … (HT: John Battelle) Permalink | No comments yet | Bookmark/share Posted in Markets

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Coaching Excellence series continues (Duct Tape Marketing Blog)

Tue, 06 May 2008 17:06:49 GMT

My monthly live interview series featuring well-known authors and business leaders continues in May with Tim Berry, founder of Palo Alto software. April's call with David Allen is archived on the series page along with calls with John Battelle, Guy Kawasaki, Michael Gerber, Tim Ferris, and Ivan Misner. The impressive line-up also features Michael Port in [...]

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40-Something Digerati Finally Throw In Towel, Join Twitter (Silicon Alley Insider)

Thu, 01 May 2008 11:59:00 GMT

Twitter may not have gone mainstream yet, but it's getting there. It has also just been discovered by another big voice in the 40-something crowd. Like us, John Battelle can't quite figure out how it works yet (where do those Tweets go , exactly, other than to our Twitter room and Twitter pages'). But now that he's joined the Twitterati, he fears that he will become obsessed. See Also:...

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